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Carmelite nuns file new theft and defamation charges against Fort Worth Bishop Olson

June 5, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: CBS News Texas/YouTube

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, filed new theft and … […]

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Fort Worth Diocese: Vatican says bishop has authority over Carmelite monastery amid investigation

May 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Amid an ongoing legal dispute between the Diocese of Fort Worth and a Carmelite monastery, the di… […]

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Carmelite priest, others arrested in Bolivia on sex abuse charges

May 22, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).
In the midst of allegations of sexual abuse against Jesuit priests in Bolivia, a Carmelite priest was arrested recently by the authorities, and accusations … […]

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How the Mystery of the Trinity illuminates the mystery of atonement

April 7, 2023 Carl E. Olson 11

Margaret M. Turek, S.T.D., is Professor of Theology and Chair of Dogmatic Theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University. After studying and earning degrees at the University of San Francisco (where she studied in the […]

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The little-known connection between hoops and holiness

November 24, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Denver, Colo., Nov 24, 2022 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The start of basketball season always coincides with the American holiday of Thanksgiving, lending a proper season to be grateful for the American-born sport. But precise… […]

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How can we suffer well? 10 quotes from St. Teresa of Ávila

October 15, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 15, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
October 15 is the feast of St. Teresa of Ávila, when the Catholic Church remembers the Spanish Carmelite reformer and Doctor of the Church whose life of p… […]

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A look into America’s oldest Carmelite monastery

July 21, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

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Denver Newsroom, Jul 21, 2022 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Nestled in the farmland of Port Tobacco, Maryland stands the oldest Carm… […]

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12 keys to using the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

July 15, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

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Denver Newsroom, Jul 15, 2022 / 20:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Pius XII said, “The devotion to the Carmelite scapular has brought down on the world a copious rain of spiritual and temporal graces.”On the feast of Our Lad… […]

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Pope Francis opens special process to canonize 16 Carmelite martyrs of the French Revolution

February 25, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Blessed Martyrs of Compiègne were guillotined for their faith on July 17, 1794. / Photo illustration.

Denver Newsroom, Feb 25, 2022 / 13:40 pm (CNA).
Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their death only July 17, 1794, during… […]

Features

The Discalced Carmelite Sisters of Fairfield and Vatican document Cor Orans

November 20, 2021 Jim Graves 215

The Discalced Carmelite Sisters of Fairfield, Pennsylvania of the Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph were established in 2018, an outgrowth of a Carmel convent in Valparaiso, Nebraska.  Following the beliefs of the great Carmelite […]

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